A Plague of Tics

I read the story A Plague of Tics in our coursepack. It's about this kid who has these weird problems where he has to press his nose against objects, and he likes to roll his eyes around and rock in his bed. I've never even heard of people doing this sort of stuff haha. I think it's kind of weird. I thought the story was kind of weird and random. I think everybody has their weird obsessive compulsive quirks but I think this kids were really over the top. I'm kind of wondering if he was masochistic haha because in one part he was in the car with his dad and his dad pressed really hard on the break and the boy's head shot out and hit the windshield. It hurt him obviously and he was bleeding but he liked. it. What the heck?? Hahaha. Although this story was weird and I really don't know what to make out of it I thought it was an entertaining read.